montagnarde1793:

silver-whistle:

montagnarde1793:

asongofmeandstuff:

Found this note on Les Miserables in Assassin’s Creed Unity haha

Actually though? I mean, Jean Valjean is fictional, obviously, but if he were real, he wouldn’t have been in Paris, but he would have been alive, doing his thing, being a peasant in 1789. So, no, Les misérables is not set in 1789, but Jean Valjean could definitely be found in Revolutionary France (in the universe of the novel, anyway).

Jean Valjean was arrested over the bread incident in 1795 (Directoire). So yes, he could have a bit-part somewhere as a young man in the countryside.

There are bigger problems with Assassin’s Creed Unity… (Poor Maximilien…)

Oh, absolutely, this doesn’t even register on the list of problems with the game itself.

But it is interesting to note how carefully Hugo timed the stealing of the loaf of bread: if it had been the winter of the Year III instead of the Year IV, Jean Valjean would probably have just joined one of the many bread riots, and the probability of his being arrested would be much lower.